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MAN HAS 5″ NAIL REMOVED FROM HIS KIDNEY AFTER 20 YEARS

A nail which has been removed from a man’s kidney, where it had been for 20 years, at the Henan Provincial Coal General Hospital in Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan province.
Gao, 41, was sent to hospital for emergency treatment after passing out. CAT scans showed that Gao had a metal object in his [...]

CONJOINED TWINS SHARE A HEART

Conjoined twins Emma and Taylor Bailey strike a pose at home in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Bailey twins share a heart and a liver, when they were born they were only expected to live for 15 minutes.
Doctors told the couple, who have six children, that their lungs would rush their heart from the moment they [...]

GIRL WITH SNAKE SHAPED SPINE TO HAVE CORRECTIVE SURGERY

Above are x-rays taken yesterday (January 31) of Xiao Rong of Chongqing, China, who has a severely twisted spine.
The 14-year-old is to receive surgery to correct her snake-shaped spine this February at Xinqiao Hospital.
Xiao developed a twisted spine when she was just 9-years-old.
“My grandmother found my shoulders are not on the same [...]

CHINESE BOY COUGHS UP ‘ALIEN’ OBJECT

Xiao Lin of Phoenix village, Hechuan, Chongqing in the local Children’s hospital after he coughed up an ‘alien’ object on January 13.
The 3-year-old boy was hospitalized in the afternoon, and in the evening he had a fierce coughing fit, and something was coughed out from his throat,” said his father Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan [...]

WOMAN HAS FINGERS REPLACED WITH TOES

Zhao of Huxian town, western China’s Shaanxi province, was run over by a loaded lorry on the way to the grocery store, and her left forearm including the hand and part of the right thigh were crushed beyond recognition.
Doctors were forced to amputate the 49-year-old’s leg, but her toes were intact, so she underwent [...]

CHINESE WOMAN TO HAVE TUMOUR REMOVED

A tumour is shown to the press ahead of the operation at Xijing Hospital in Xi’an, China.
A Chinese woman is to have surgery to remove a 25 kilogram tumour on her back. Sun Fengqin, from Inner Mongolia, said she was born with a yellow birthmark on her back. “My family didn’t pay [...]